Material from the Romantic Circles Website may not be downloaded, reproduced or disseminated in any
manner without authorization unless it is for purposes of criticism, comment, news reporting,
teaching, and/or classroom use as provided by the Copyright Act of 1976, as amended.

Unless otherwise noted, all Pages and Resources mounted on Romantic Circles are copyrighted by the
author/editor and may be shared only in accordance with the Fair Use provisions of U.S. copyright law.
Except as expressly permitted by this statement, redistribution or republication in any medium
requires express prior written consent from the author/editors and advance notification of Romantic
Circles. Any requests for authorization should be forwarded to Romantic Circles:>

By their use of these texts and images, users agree to the following conditions: These texts and images may not be used for any commercial purpose without prior written
permission from Romantic Circles.These texts and images may not be re-distributed in any forms other than their current
ones.

Users are not permitted to download these texts and images in order to mount them on their own servers.
It is not in our interest or that of our users to have uncontrolled subsets of our holdings available
elsewhere on the Internet. We make corrections and additions to our edited resources on a continual
basis, and we want the most current text to be the only one generally available to all Internet users.
Institutions can, of course, make a link to the copies at Romantic Circles, subject to our conditions
of use.

For permission to publish the text of MSS in their possession, the editors wish to thank the Beinecke Rare
Books and Manuscript Library, Yale University; Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New
York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations; the Bodleian Library Oxford University; the
British Library; Boston Public Library; the Syndics of Cambridge University Library; the Syndics of the
Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge; Haverford College, Connecticut; the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; the
Hornby Library, Liverpool Libraries and Information Services; the Houghton Library, Harvard University;
the John Rylands Library, Manchester; the Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas; Luton
Museum (Bedfordshire County Council); Massachusetts Historical Society; McGill University Library; the
National Library of Scotland; the Newberry Library, Chicago; the New York Public Library (Pforzheimer
Collections); the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York; the Public Record Offices of Bedford, Suffolk (Bury
St Edmunds) and Northumberland, the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge; the Society of
Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne; the Trustees of the William Salt Library, Stafford, the Wisbech and
Fenland Museum; the University of Virginia Library.

A research grant from the British Academy made much of the archival work possible, as did support from the
English Department of Nottingham Trent University.

All quotation marks and apostrophes have been changed: " for “," for ”, ' for ‘, and ' for ’.

Any dashes occurring in line breaks have been removed.

Because of web browser variability, all hyphens have been typed on the U.S. keyboard

Dashes have been rendered as —

Bloomfield's spelling has not been regularized.

Writing in other hands appearing on these manuscripts has been indicated as such, the content recorded
in brackets.

& has been used for the ampersand sign.

£ has been used for £, the pound sign

All other characters, those with accents, non-breaking spaces, etc., have been encoded in HTML entity
decimals.

I thank you for that excellent mixture of truth advice, and
raillery contain’d in your long letter, which ought to have been answerd
immediately, but being so well apprized of your patients’ case you will the more
readily forgive his neglect, which has chiefly proceeded from absolute inability
to think or feel in the right humour. Let this at last assure you that I recieve
your friendship and your castigation in good part; and shall be right glad to
see you here. And be you further assur’d that I am much
better, though the occasions of my late sorrow are by no means removed, This may
appear unaccountable, but cannot be explaind here. I struggle with pecuniary
difficulties for some months longer. My Bookselling concerns are critically
situated, and I fear may lead to litigation, and I hate Law as a patient in
Hydrophobia hates water. The preservation of my life untill March is of vital
consequence to my family; I therefore rejoice in being this far amended, and
think I shall yet live to cheat the Booksellers, if not ‘to dig in the earth for
my lost Muse’ Some parts of your advice I cannot fullfill, we have neither Cat,
nor regular Fish kettle, and slaming the Doors would be no novelty, for the wind
does that from morning till night.

Messrs Weston & Inskip are highly pleased with your
letter, and have urged me to write sooner. I have just sent my Boy to a school, which is
one small anxiety off my mind. Perhaps I may be in London before March, but not
if I can possibly avoid it.